The world is in crisis right now, but the summer is shaping up to be much worse—for reasons beyond every country’s control, including America’s.

President Trump’s war on Iran is the cause of the current crisis. Iran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz to most trade has caused oil and natural gas prices to skyrocket, forcing countries to find creative ways to cut energy demand, and…

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.

“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

U.S. fertilizer prices have skyrocketed ahead of a crucial spring growing season for farmers as Iran continues its retaliatory blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. But instead of admitting that Trump’s war has farmers at home suffering, White House officials are blaming former President Joe Biden and poaching fertilizer from other countries.

“What are you doing in your department to ensure that the…

Donald Trump’s new transportation proposal will hurt transit funding in every single American state, undermining affordability across the board. From red states to blue states, and from drivers to non-drivers, everyone will feel the impact.

Florida transferred $244 million of its Surface Transportation Block Grant money into transit from 2021 to 2023. (Joe Raedle / Getty…

France’s mass deportation orders reveal how colonial logics persist in migration policy, turning former subjects into administrative problems to be expelled.

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Over a peak-hour commute in the Parisian metro last year, a middle-aged black woman elbowed her way to the leaning bar and loudly declared that she had just received an “OQTF”—an obligation to quit the…

The labor movement isn’t just the weakest it’s been in a century. Without a radical and aggressive shift in organizing, US unions could effectively cease to matter in the very near future.

Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism — it’s basic math. (Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Unions are…

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